Student Profiles
Our outstanding students bring a rich array of experience, legal knowledge and cultures to USC Law. They come from countries all over the world.
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Virginia Santana Correa Oliveira
Brazil
Virginia Santana Correa Oliveira pursued her law degree in 2007 at the University of Salvador in Brazil. During her studies, she interned in the Federal Court of Bahia, and the Citizen’s Rights division within the Federal Prosecution Service in Bahia. After graduation, Ms. Oliveira became a member of the Brazilian Bar and the same year started working as an attorney for the Attorney General’s Office of the Municipality of Camacari in Bahia, where she represented the Municipality in civil litigation in producing legal responses to civil complaints and attended related legal hearings and meetings. In 2009, Ms. Oliveira obtained a certified specialization in civil procedure at the Bahian School of Law. The goal of furthering her law studies by attending an LL.M program in the U.S., the country where affirmative action first developed as a legal issue, has been a strong desire of Ms. Oliveira’s since completing her undergraduate senior thesis on the constitutionality of affirmative action programs in the public universities of Bahia. Her ultimate goal is to become a federal public prosecutor who defends diffused, collective, and homogeneous individual interests.
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Zhe Wang
China
Zhe Wang earned his bachelor’s degree in law in China in 2010. During his first year of undergraduate studies, he devoted his time to operating an English association, and successfully signed cooperation contracts with New Orientation Company, the largest English teaching organization in China. In his second undergraduate year, Mr. Wang set up an entrepreneurship team and became its leader. The team won a silver medal in the Challenge Cup National Business Plan Competition. Before coming to USC, Mr. Wang registered and established Putai Energy Company, Ltd., a methane fuel development company in Chengdu City. He is interested in becoming a corporate lawyer as he believes their skills are most important in the Chinese lawyers market.
